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WESTALL Library librarians Fel Jeges, left, and Lorraine Manuel get ready to hire out some of the most popular books hired from Kingston libraries last year. Kingston Council has revealed a list of the top 10 books borrowed across the municipality in 2017. See story Page 6. Picture: Gary Sissons
Cameras call to view public Neil Walker neil@baysidenews.com.au MEMBERS of the public who attend Kingston Council meetings to watch councillors debate and vote on council matters may be filmed in future in the wake of a turbulent planning meeting last month. Cheers, jeers and dissent from the public gallery accompanied councillors’ debate on the contentious completion of the Bay Trail shared cycling
and walking track from Mentone Life Saving Club to Parkdale’s Rennison St at a planning meeting on the evening of Wednesday 24 January. At the subsequent regular monthly public council meeting held on 29 January, South ward councillor Georgina Oxley won a narrow 5-4 support from fellow councillors to have council officers look at the possibility of recording the public gallery at council meetings. Cr Oxley said some people had contacted her after the planning meeting
saying they had safety concerns about attending meetings open to the public in the council chamber. “The safety of everyone here is something I think we should all be concerned about,” she said at the 29 January meeting. Central ward councillor Ron Brownlees disagreed and said he had seen “much worse” at council meetings during his decades in public office. “Sure there’s argy-bargy that goes on and you hear the gallery laugh and make interjections, and you give
it back, but I can’t see where anyone is feeling threatened in terms of their physical or mental welling,” he said. Cr Oxley said she saw behaviour by some people in the gallery when the Bay Trail debate was underway acted in a way that “was at best disruptive, and at worst absolutely disgraceful”. “As councillors tried to speak to items on the agenda, members in the gallery were jeering and yelling.” She said submitters about the Bay Trail construction were also “jeered at and abused and called vile names to
rude to repeat in this chamber”. “Visitors to our council chamber need to be respectful of the people here and the decisions and processes that occur in this chamber that are fundamental to our democracy,” Cr Oxley said. “And most do but some members of the gallery hide amongst a crowd which, in my books, is almost as bad as having a fake Facebook profile and spreading hate behind a keyboard and it is just as cowardly.” Continued Page 4
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